In recent years, as urban gardening has become popular during the COVID-19 pandemic, backyard beekeeping has gained traction as well. While many people may think of beekeeping as a quirky hobby, ...

What started as a niche class for Central Texas hobbyists has grown into a statewide movement to support and educate a new generation of beekeepers. With backyard hives on the rise and a growing need ...

Santa Rosa 9-year-old Nicholas Bard is a walking encyclopedia of honeybee facts. A colony needs 30 to 60 pounds of honey to survive each winter. The average lifespan of bees is about two weeks. And ...

To be or not to be a beekeeper: That is the question that may be answered Jan. 18 when expert Jay Martin takes part in Backyard Brouhaha, a daylong symposium about turning your property into a habitat ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Backyard beekeepers play a critical role in maintaining a thriving pollinator population, and two Mississippi State scientists in the Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) – On a cold January day, while others were bundled up and toasty inside, 55 people went out to learn about how to start beehives in their backyards. While it may seem ...

FARGO-Jonathan Garaas has learned a few things in three seasons of backyard beekeeping: Bees are fascinating. They're complicated. And keeping them alive is not easy.The Fargo attorney lost hives in ...

LAKE RIDGE, Va. (7News) — Honeybees first arrived to what is now Virginia in 1622. A shipment from England brought these super pollinators to the United States and now, 400 years later, there are more ...

With wild bee populations declining due to habitat loss, pesticides, climate change and disease, more people are taking up backyard beekeeping to help pollinators survive. From rooftops to rural farms ...

In Florida, you can keep bees in your backyard. That's a good thing because honey bees are vital to food and wildlife in the state. Despite threats like disease, habitat loss and queen quality issues, ...